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The Cinematic Body Steven Shaviro |
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In The Cinematic Body, Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder’s gay sex icons and George Romero’s flesh-eating zombies, The Cinematic Body cuts across disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage new currents in critical thought. Shaviro radically critiques the Lacanian model currently popular in film theory and film studies, arguing against that model’s obsessive emphasis on the phallus, castration anxiety, sadistic master, ideology, and the structure of the signifier. In this groundbreaking volume, Shaviro effectively communicates a sense of the inescapable ambivalence and intensities of contemporary culture, ultimately affirming a thoroughly postmodern sensibility. "The Cinematic Body cuts across disciplinary boundaries" —The Drama Review "Invokes and evokes the force and sensation of film from within a Deleuze-Guattarian perspective. Well-written, elegant, and eloquent." —Dana Polan Steven Shaviro is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Washington. He is author of Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society. 280 pages | 1993 |
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